[Vision2020] third party candidates

[Scott Dredge]

Same here Dave in terms of 'haven't decided'.  I'll make a choice late Tuesday night and all candidates on the ballot are still in play as is 'none of the above'.  Have fun.

-Scott

> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 12:31:19 -0800
> From: tiedye at turbonet.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] third party candidates
> 
> Well put Paul!
> 
> For the fist time in my life I still haven't decided who to vote for.   
> Since 2000 I have been voting Green and really appreciate that for the 
> first time my vote actually counts for something instead of being pissed 
> away in a red state electoral collage.  The Green party is close to the 
> 15% required to automatically be on the ballot in all the states so I 
> want to give them my vote for that reason. But Rocky Anderson is great! 
> He is exactly what the country needs, so I want to vote for him. I may 
> not decide until the ballot is in front of me....
> 
> Did anyone else listen to any of the third party debates?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On 11/3/2012 4:22 PM, Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> > I would just like to remind people out there to take a look at the 
> > third party candidates that are on your particular ballot for the 
> > Presidential race.  For Idaho, it's Rocky Anderson (Independent), 
> > Virgil Goode (Constitution), Gary Johnson (Libertarian), and Jill 
> > Stein (Independent).
> >
> > If you live in a State that is a shoe-in for one of the main two 
> > candidates, for or against, consider voting third party.  In my 
> > opinion, breaking the two-party stranglehold on the political system 
> > is one of the best things we could do for this country.  It would do 
> > wonders to break the polarisation of our citizenship that is causing a 
> > lot of harm, it would mean that certain issues that both parties 
> > currently in power agree upon would have to be re-evaluated if third 
> > parties were stronger in elections (to avoid losing votes to those 
> > third-party candidates), and it would force a multidimensional look at 
> > political topics instead of trying to shoe-horn everything into one 
> > axis, liberal or conservative.
> >
> > Paul
> >
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